The Great Escape

(1963, 172m) dir John Sturges w/Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson. A group of Allied officers, experts at escaping military prisons, are put in a German POW camp designed to keep them in. They plan an escape of hundreds of their men at once, hoping to draw German personnel and resources away from combat operations before the invasion at Normandy. Escape is both a tense thriller and portrait of bravery in the face of oppression.

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